Kosovo Serb politician admits role in gun battle that killed four

Kosovo special police officers patrol a road to Banjska monastery, in the aftermath of a shooting incident, near Zvecan, Kosovo September 26, 2023. REUTERS/Florion Goga/File Photo

BELGRADE (Reuters) - A top Kosovo Serb politician, Milan Radoicic, on Friday admitted to taking part in a gun battle with police in Serb-dominated northern Kosovo that killed four people.

Kosovo police on Sunday fought around 30 heavily armed Serbs who had barricaded themselves into the Serbian Orthodox monastery in the village of Banjska. Three attackers and a Kosovo Albanian police officer were killed.